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" The Lover's Walk," and at the end of it, to greet 

 the lovers who may walk there, stands a little 

 stone Amorini. 



Another interesting feature is the Bowling Green 

 and the Bowling Green House ; the latter designed 

 by that great connoisseur, Lord Burlington, though 

 the exact date of its erection is uncertain. It is 

 to be noticed in an old plan of 1735. A character- 

 istic example of Queen Anne work, it is quite 

 worthy of its designer whose name at that time was 

 frequently associated with the arts. The Portico is 

 handsome but simple in treatment, with six well- 

 proportioned pillars ; inside there is a fine banquet- 

 ing room with an old chimney-piece supposed to 

 date back to 1570. The west front of the Bowling 

 Green House overlooks the canal and the old Park, 

 which till the Duke of Kent's time was the old 

 deer Park. There was another Garden house at 

 Wrest, of the same date a temple of Diana but 

 it was pulled down when the old house was 

 rebuilt. 



Paradoxical as it may seem, Wrest is a Garden 

 without flowers, but there is an enchantment about 

 the beauty of the green depth of this magical 

 Garden of Statues, clipped Hedges, and Pools that 

 is never felt in any bright Flower Garden, however 

 laden with scent or gorgeous with colour. 



The beauties and charms of Wrest would 

 be difficult to imitate, especially on a small 



